Reviews, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

Reviews, evaluation and impact assessment are important tools to inform the future, while documenting the past. EMPOWERHOUSE has the tools and the experience needed to match your specific documentation needs, be it through systematic interviews, facilitation of consultative workshops, surveys, tracer studies or audience feed-back in a variety of ways. Impact assessment furthermore highlight the change generated by the work in, of and around the media. It can be particularly effective in and around community media, where matching of impact documented with the change desired, can provide important information on to ways forward.

EMPOWERHOUSE works with Reviews, Evaluation and Impact Assessment in the following ways:

EMPOWERHOUSE tailors the tools needed to answer the needs and questions you have, and implements the assessment process in partnership with the organisation in question, ensuring that capacity is built in the team to continue this work on an ongoing basis,

EMPOWERHOUSE always embeds a review, an evaluation or an impact assessment in the reality and context in which it is found, avoiding to consider a development intervention in its own narrow framework, but always as an integrated part of the surrounding political, economic, cultural reality,

EMPOWERHOUSE where possible engages those being reviewed or evaluated in the review/ evaluation exercise, while ensuring to also have outside views of the intervention through engaging relevant ‘free thinkers’ and stakeholders in the process,

Aware of and alert towards the weight often carried by an evaluation or review by the customer, EMPOWERHOUSE carefully vets all information gathered through triangulation, feed-back meetings with reviewed entity and customer, while maintaining the required quality, rigour and integrity as an evaluator and reviewer,

In the EMPOWERHOUSE work with impact assessment in community radio stations, the final presentation of findings to the station itself: its management and community (volunteer) broadcasters, is usually connected to a discussion how the community can continue this work in simple, yet effective and reliable ways. This usually includes a discussion of the role of impact assessment for sustainability including for credibility (and thus ownership) by the community and potential to mobilise (funding) partners (and thus financial support).

The EMPOWERHOUSE portfolio of experience in the area Reviews, Evaluation and Impact Assessment includes the following:

VietnamUNICEF/Itad

2016: Evaluation of UNICEF C4D capacity development; integration and mainstreaming; and evaluability of the UNICEF Country Office in Vietnam

KyrgyzstanUNICEF/Itad

2016: Evaluation of UNICEF C4D capacity development; integration and mainstreaming; and evaluability of the UNICEF Country Office in Kyrgyzstan

UNICEF HQ, ROs, COsUNICEF/Itad

2015-2016: Evaluation of UNICEF’s C4D work globally. Evaluation design, implementation of evaluation and presentation of recommendations

MyanmarIMS

2015: End of programme review of the IMS ‘Media Development in Support of Democratic Governance & National Reconciliation in Myanmar’ Programme

VietnamDanida

2014: Final review of Journalism training programme to local TV stations in Vietnam

Lao PDRUNDP

2013/14, Review of Lao PDR’s civil society, community communication programme, carry out impact assessment of community radios and develop concept note for new phase

VietnamDanida

2013: Midterm-review of Journalism training programme to local TV stations in Vietnam.

ZimbabweNorwegian embassy

2012: Review of support to IMS management of Norwegian support to the independent media in Zimbabwe 2010-2012.

Democratic Republic of Congo, BurundiADRA Denmark

2012: Midterm review of C4D project using radio to curb violence against women

BurundiADRA Denmark

2011: Evaluation: Breaking the silence. Children engage in dialogue on HIV/AIDS through radio

1998: Mid-term review of REDET II (Research and Education for Democracy), Tanzania. Responsible for review of Media activities and co-responsible for Development Communication aspects of Education, in charge of report-writing.

“Assessing community change: development of a ‘bare foot’ impact assessment methodology” in: Radio Journal Vol. 3.1, July 2005.

2004

“Community Radio for Empowerment and Change” in: Journal for Development Communication, December 2004

2004

“Participation by Community Radios in Civic Education and Electoral Coverage. The Experience of the Community Radios in Mozambique’s 2003 Local Elections. Specific Cases of: Dondo, Chimoio and Cuamba” by Acia Sales. Commissioned, designed and supervised by Birgitte Jallov on behalf of UNESCO Mozambique

2003

“Creating and Sustaining ICT Projects in Mozambique”, in “The One to Watch -Radio, new ICTs and interactivity”, FAO.

2001

“Creating Sustainable Community Radio – a Major Challenge”, Mozambique

1999

“Community Radio Mushrooming in Mozambique”, Interradio, AMARC

1996

“Women’s Voices Crossing Frontiers – 1996 European Directory of Women Community Radio Stations and Women’s Radio Production Collectives”, editor and writer of Introductory article. Published by AMARC Europe.